The Amazing Spiderman--Amazing, Indeed!

The other day I was seeing an advertisement. A man, in a foreign country, having a foreign language craves for chicken. He enters a restaurant named "chi-can" with chicken pictures everywhere and naturally expects some exquisite chicken. He ends up eating a cooked dog. Viewing The Amazing Spiderman, is more or less the same. The name, gives a picture of a hardcore action-thriller super hero movie. It really is a story of a boy who acquires powers and a villain who acquires mutation; portrayed more realistically than we would want a super hero movie to be.

The story is of a teenager college boy trying to find out the truth about his father’s disappearance. In the process, he gets bitten by a radioactive spider and gets some unique powers. He then uses them for the good of mankind. Sounds similar? It is! The villain, this time is a giant lizard. He falsely believes that he can create a world without weakness by turning everyone into giant lizards too, through mutation as it gives more strength. 



The only difference in the story is that everything is attempted to be portrayed a slight more realistically. The USP (Unique Selling Point) of any super hero- action movie is the protagonist’s feverous struggle against the villain. The film lacks that. But where the film doesn’t quite do enough in action, it does more than enough in the screenplay, cinematography and direction. The dialogues didn't match up to the wonderful ones from the earlier parts.